Kobraa
Jacques Cavallier Belletrud's 2020 Kobraa, part of Le Gemme's masculine line, runs on three notes by design.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Oud70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Geranium
- Olibanum
- Agarwood
By the editors · 2 min readJacques Cavallier Belletrud's 2020 Kobraa, part of Le Gemme's masculine line, runs on three notes by design. Geranium opens it green and faintly metallic — leafier than the rosy register the note usually pulls toward — before olibanum settles into the heart with a cold, smoky resin character that does most of the work for the next several hours.
The drydown is agarwood, handled clean and woody rather than barnyard, with the incense still threading through the projection. The structure is deliberately spare, almost architectural; the spareness itself is the statement. It reads serious and evening-leaning, projects substantially for the first two hours, and trails as a smoky-woody skin scent that holds for a long stretch. Cool weather only — the smoke turns sour in heat.
Scent twins
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